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by UserRights 4083 days ago
This reminds me of http://theyrule.net/ - it is a quite old website, still flash. It would be good to have an open format definition and an open source web frontend for visualizations like this.

The connections of your pet investor might be interesting, but there is much more potential to this if you would ask the people that did theyrule for their data, maybe you can find a way of working together?
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cam_pj 4083 days ago
Thanks! I did not know theyrule. Very interesting. CB Insights (someone just sent me the link: https://www.cbinsights.com/business-social-network) also have quite a few data points as well.
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UserRights 4081 days ago
too late, but if you are still watching this thread, take a look at http://littlesis.org/oligrapher
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cam_pj 4081 days ago
This is super impressive actually. It seems US centric so I had never seen this work, but wow, there is a lot of stuff. Do you know if journos use this?
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UserRights 4081 days ago
No, sorry, I do not know. It would be nice to have some kind of standard format for these kind of info so a visualization like yours could be applied easily to different databases. Maybe with some API-mangling (like yahoo pipes) it would be possible to consume several data sources and feed them into your js. Just an idea.
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